In what must be my favorite Mozo shell yet, the Black Walnut design and feel is absolutely fantastic. Made from real wood, the Black Walnut shell features a matte black soft-touch rim found on the ...

Shelling a black walnut begins with removing the fruit’s outer green layer. Experienced shellers strongly recommend wearing gloves for the task because the fruit contains a substance called juglone ...

Once the walnut shells are extracted from the crumbly black husk, you can soak and then cure the whole shells for storage, or you can skip that step and soak them for 24 hours prior to shelling.

The fruit are then harvested, hulled, and dried in-shell before cracking for commercial markets. Walnut growers use the term "ambers" to describe poorly filled, shriveled eastern black walnut kernels.